Umami is a complex yet famliar sensation we often encounter in food—an essential character often referred to as “the fifth taste”. However, this savoury profile tends to takes a back seat when it comes to beverages, long limited to polarising drinks such as the Bloody Mary or Dirty Martini. Fascinatingly,embraced this flavour profile, resulting in cocktails such as the Cold Pizza from the famed Double Chicken Please (New York) and the Thai Beef Salad from The Savoury Project (Hong Kong), the recently-opened bar by the team behind Coa. Here, four top bartending talents in the Philippines share their take on the umami craze.
